A total of five local football teams will have their seasons continue in the MHSAA Playoffs.

The pairing were released on Sunday night by Fox Sports Detroit.

A few schools finished the season at 5-4 and were on the bubble to make the playoffs.

Sturgis, who finished 5-4 on the year, did not qualify for the post season. Colon, who was another 5-4 school in the area, did qualify for the playoffs.

In 8-man football, Burr Oak had an outside shot to make the playoffs. However, they were not selected into the 16-team post season field.

Of the five local teams that qualified for the post season, two of them will play each other.

Mendon, the top-ranked team in the state in Division 8, will host the Colon Magi on Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m.

Colon made the playoffs with a 5-4 record.

“We got together today and watch the selection show and thought we had a chance to play Climax-Scotts or Mendon,” Colon coach Spencer Henley said. “We’re excited to get into the playoffs and we’re still playing. This gives us extra time as a team and we’ll get after it on Saturday and see what happens.”

Colon will bring up some junior varsity players and will dress around 31 players for the game.

Mendon finished the regular season with a 9-0 record and had three shutouts. They are the reigning Division 8 state champions, beating Fowler 33-0 in the finals a season ago.

“We haven’t played Mendon in several years and they’re obviously a great program and probably favored to maybe win it again this year,” Henley said. “We haven’t seen them on film yet, but we’ll take a look tonight and be ready to go. It should be a lot of fun and it should be interesting.”

Henley said his team was “up-beat” and are looking forward to continue getting a chance to play this season.

Mendon and Colon have not played since the 2007 season, when the Hornets topped the Magi 29-0 in the third week of that season.

On the other side of the bracket, St. Joseph Lake Michigan Catholic (7-1) will take on 9-0 Climax-Scotts.

Last year, Mendon beat Climax in the regional finals 35-10.

Division 4

In Division 4, Three Rivers makes it back to the playoffs for the first time since 2009, when they lost in the state finals to Marshall.

The Wildcats finished with a 6-3 record this season and won their final two games over South Haven and Vicksburg to automatically qualify with six wins.

Page 2 of 2 - Three Rivers’ three losses all came to playoff teams — Plainwell, Edwardsburg and Dowagiac.

They will take on the Battle Creek Pennfield Panthers, who finished the season at 8-1. Their lone loss came at the hands of the top-ranked Schoolcraft Eagles 19-16 back on Sept. 28.

Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday night at Battle Creek Pennfield High School.

In the other district game, Williamston (6-3) will take on Marshall, who is also 6-3 on the season.

Division 6

Constantine will be making its 14th consecutive playoff appearance next week. The Falcons finished the regular season with a 7-2 record and were tanked in the Top 10 all season.

They’ll be on the road, however, taking on an 8-1 Watervliet team that lost last week to Lawton 33-26.

This is the Panthers’ sixth time in the playoffs since 1995.

Both of Constantine’s losses this season came to Top 3 teams in Schoolcraft and Battle Creek Pennfield.

On the other side of the district draw, Niles-Brandywine (7-2) will take on the top-ranked Schoolcraft Eagles, who finished the season at 9-0. Schoolcraft averaged 35 points per game this season.

Also playing in Division 6 will be the 5-3 Bronson Vikings.

Bronson will play in the Region 2 district draw against Hillsdale, who finished the season at 9-0. The game will be played at 7 p.m. on Friday night.

Viking coach Jeff Gallup said the contest could be at the high school or the college. That has yet to be determined.

Bronson last made the playoffs in 2009, when they lost in the regional finals to Constantine.

Prior to that, Bronson had never qualified for the post season.

The Vikings won the final four games of the season to reach the playoffs. Because they only had eight scheduled games, they automatically qualified for the post season with five wins.

Hillsdale won all nine games this year and allowed only 10 points per game.

This will be the 11th consecutive trip to the post season for the Hornets.

On the other side of the bracket, Blissfield at 5-4 will take on Jonesville, who finished the regular season at 7-2.